TIL that 16-bit PCMCIA sound cards were a thing at some point: https://deadinsi.de/@yottatsa/113863715875853434 — I was aware of some models during the CardBus era (32-bit) but hadn't crossed my mind that of course there had to be earlier incarnations of the idea.
There's even an obscure one called Aura targeted at the #Amiga 1200: https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=1263
If it was easier to manufacture PCMCIA implements, it would be cool to see more Open Hardware in that form factor.
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Oooof, the info for Lima reads “Perú es sensiblemente menor que Alaska y limita con por el Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Bolivia y Chile”, and there is a “por el” too much. I'm gonna have to check the DOS version in Spanish because I suspect that may have received a bit more of love given that the #Amiga was a bit niche in Spanish speaking countries.
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Well, look at what came in the mail. My first original #MSX Konami game cartridge since (checks notes)... 1988. About time.
Now, how long will it stay like that before committing crimes to the SCC chip inside?
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Also I like this detail: the computer where we enter the clues to get suspects and have a warrant emitted is an #Amiga itself! The picture is from the English version, but it's the same still in the Spanish one.
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Fun tidbits:
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Inspired by @foone's recent poking at Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and after some days of searching I finally managed to locate a working copy of the Spanish #Amiga version of the game.
A quick moving files around and it works with WHDLoad reusing the setup for the US game. Modulo some cursor glitching during the load.
I already had the English one around, which is easy to find, but localized ones not so much.
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A few days back I tried some #Amiga productivity software, and played a bit with TurboCalc. Today I had to open LibreOffice Calc on a computer that is several orders of magnitude more powerful than an A1200, and it took longer, and using it felt slower. Those have all the features I ever needed:
SC offloads graphs to GNU Plot, so technically TurboCalc has the highest features/size ratio 🙃
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This seems to be good starting point for DIY electronics audio projects: https://tangentsoft.com/audio/
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A couple of days ago I started looking into a headphone amplifier with optional stereo cross-mixing, with the idea of avoidong the hard stereo separation of the #Amiga and ahhhhhhhh! I am going down a rabbit hole reading about small DIY solid state amplifiers. Maybe that'd be a good next soldering project: building the simplest, most newbie–tolerant circuit that would get the job done, and see how that pans out (pun intended). This sounds like it could be fun to do (again, pun intended).
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A nice winter wonderland picture I took a few days back. That's it, that's the post :neocat_comfy_happy:
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Inspiration from here: https://www.uncute.com/collections/purritos/products/purritos?variant=34150898794540
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Given current events, I no longer felt like using my pixel art shiba doge as profile picture, so went ahead and made me a new one with a cute kitten wrapped in a burrito blanket (hence a “purrito”), using the default #MSX (TMS9918) palette. This was finally the excuse I needed to try #Grafx2, and it was fine, actually!
The ultimate challenge would have been using DeluxePaint on the Amiga, though :neocat_catmode:
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Periodic reminder that #OpenFirmware works on x86 as well: https://www.openfirmware.org/Open_Firmware — that's where device trees come from, and maybe we would have been better off using it instead of UEFI or U-Boot, which I personally find quite janky.
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Writing with the #Greaseweazle works, and the #MSX can read back the floppies. There's the Outer Sounds music disk blasting out some tunes :neocat_cool:
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Look at that, I made a thing and it works! Re-reading the #Greaseweazle FAQ section without being as tired as other times actually made me notice that my drive likely needed the 12V power rail, which the F1 adapter does not provide. Picked a random centre positive 12V power supply, vampirized a Molex-Berg cable by popping out the needed pins from the Molex connector and plugging them (somewhat haphazardly), and it's working wonderfully.
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Well, the basics work, and it was a few orders of magnitude easier to have #Clang producing #m68k code than fighting autotools to get a working GCC cross-compiler :neocat_bongo_up: :neocat_bongo_down: :neocat_bongo_up: :neocat_bongo_down:
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Current status: I wanted to build Clang 19.1.5, so I figured might as well enable the experimental #m68k support. There's a handy page at https://m680x0.github.io/doc/
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Here up North we may have snow and long winters, but also amazing sky lighting. Those skiiiiies! :neocat_aww:
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Oops, with the switch to Skia in #WebKit we accidentally lost support for OpenType-SVG color fonts. A kind soul has provided a patch set which I'm now babysitting (with their permission) to bring it back: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283246
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This is how my testing setup looks like to run #AdventOfCode programs on the #MSX. So far I did a couple of them in Turbo Modula-2, and it has been an interesting experience. It feels modern and high level enough to almost be unbelievable that this runs on a Z80 a little under 4 MHz, on any CP/M 2.1 compatible system (I think, not completely sure about the minor version).
The last picture shows how the language runtime can even produce stack traces for uncaught exceptions. I find both these features (exceptions, and meaningful stack traces) amazing for something that was done back in the 80s!
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